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Moms Against TikTok Host Ban TikTok Press Conference ft. Libs of TikTok <[link removed]> - Joined by a collection of members of Congress, influencers, and grassroots demonstrators from across the country, Heritage and “Moms Against TikTok” will continue to argue in favor of a ban on TikTok. Following testimony from TikTok’s CEO, the event will shine a light on the social harms of the application featuring the creator of Libs of TikTok. Heritage Expert: Jake Denton <[link removed]>
The reality behind bromance between Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi <[link removed]> - The lengthy huddle between the leaders of China and Russia is a bromance
playing out in parallel universes. While it may look like the rising of a new Evil Empire, this is the reality: an increasingly desperate Putin and an opportunistic regime in Beijing. Heritage Expert: Jim Carafano <[link removed]>
Education Choice Means Accountability to Families <[link removed]>— As education choice policies sweep the nation, critics are raising concerns about the potential for waste, fraud, and abuse. Yet a closer look reveals that these policies offer a model for accountability. A dozen states now have K-12 education savings account, or ESA, policies that allow families to use a portion of state education funds to customize their children’s education. In five states, every K-12 student has or will soon have access to ESAs or ESA-like programs. The flexibility over how education dollars may be spent have raised questions about whether families will spend ESA funds responsibly. Opponents allege that ESA policies, like Arizona’s, have “few legal guardrails” and “loopholes the size of the Grand Canyon.” Yet independent audits and the agencies charged with providing oversight tell a very different story. Heritage Expert: Jason Bedrick <[link removed]>
The Tyranny of the DEI Bureaucracy <[link removed]>—The Stanford blowup shows how the culture of DEI, and especially its accumulation of power in the bureaucracy, has become a threat to free speech. Students who gather to jeer disfavored speakers and intimidate and harass fellow students use the authority of DEI offices to sanction their behavior. Rather than promoting diversity, DEI officers enforce ideological conformity. Jay Greene of the Heritage Foundation reports that the average major university now has 45 DEI personnel. The University of Michigan has 163 DEI officers. Ohio State and the University of Virginia each have 94. Georgia Tech has 41 DEI personnel but only 13 history professors. All of this has understandably produced a political backlash. Heritage Expert: Jay Greene <[link removed]>
Good News: Congress Advances Its Probe of COVID-19’s Origin <[link removed]> - Congressional action was swift after a Wall Street Journal report <[link removed]> that analysts at both the Department of Energy and the FBI concluded that the pandemic most likely resulted from a lab leak <[link removed]> in Wuhan, China. The newly created House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, chaired by Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, conducted its first hearing <[link removed]>March 8 on the origin of the deadly pandemic. A key witness, Dr. Robert Redfield, a virologist who was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Trump administration, testified <[link removed]> that COVID-19 was likely the result of an “accidental” leak from a research laboratory in Wuhan, China. Heritage Expert: Bob Moffit <[link removed]>
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